New Year, New Guest Blog

New Year, New Guest Blog

Happy 2017, everyone!  Exciting news! Sound the trumpets! Stop the presses! What? Am I overjoyed at the start of a brand-new year? Well, yes, but there’s more!   This morning, I am happy to be the guest blogger at http://evelyncullet.com/blog/. Being Evelyn Cullet’s first guest of the New Year is quite an honor! Check out her attractive website. Evelyn is another cozy mystery […]

Encounter on an Icy Street

Encounter on an Icy Street

Today, the temperature is shivering around seven degrees. The roads yesterday were slick and icy. They reminded me of the dangerous time in Ednalee, Oklahoma, when not only were the streets hazardous from the weather, they were life-threatening because of a kidnapper who was out to make Ned his next victim. And this was nearing Christmas too!Had […]

Fiddlin’ With the Facts

Fiddlin’ With the Facts

Remember the old, black and white TV series, Dragnet and the phrase, “Just the facts, Ma’am.”  This unflappable team of Jack Webb and Harry Morgan spent a whole thirty minutes ferreting out the bad guys and getting to the facts of the case. But, fiction writers can have fun fiddlin’ with the facts. In writing By […]

A Mysterious Oklahoma Outlaw

A Mysterious Oklahoma Outlaw

Fiction is fiction but fiction also has elements of non-fiction as is the case of By the Fright of the Silvery Moon and a mysterious Oklahoma outlaw. You see, the plot of Fright centers around a secret about Granger’s Mansion. Because of that, several people’s lives are in jeopardy. (Well, if the truth be known, a […]

By the Fright of the Silvery Moon

By the Fright of the Silvery Moon

Here’s a peek at my current work in progress. If you have questions or suggestions or any comment about it, please put them in the comment section. I would welcome them. Fright is a lot of fun to write. The first book in the Moonlight series takes place in December. This second book is ten […]

The Silver Moon Knew the Old Mansion’s Secret

The Silver Moon Knew the Old Mansion’s Secret

The full, silver moon had looked down on some nefarious goings on at Granger Mansion, things that nobody else knew about…well, yes, maybe two other people knew and the dead man might have known, but he could never tell. Now, forty years later, someone is threatening the murderer. The secret should have been secure; but sometimes […]